The journey into life and health science for Professor Chandru which began in the mid-90s has been a story of science meets technology that leads to innovation – the way it is supposed to work.
Molecular biology got a great boost in the late 80s when the human genome project was conceived and the US and UK governments together pumped in around 3B$ of funding over the next 15 years to get the human reference genome sequenced and verified. The transduction of biology that happened as a consequence required the “best in class” computer science to stand shoulder to shoulder with the biologists to make sense of the huge amounts of data that started spewing out of the high precision and high throughput instruments that were flooding the market.